happen
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“What really scares me is what will happen several years from now, when all of us wake up,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
As part of "broader work" that needs to happen, Kotlikoff said in his video statement that there should be a "serious look at the role of fraternities and sororities in campus life".
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The video explainer referred to inspections only generally, and the state’s written guidance indicated only that this would need to happen before occupancy.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
He added: "An environment where things like this can happen is no place to grow artificial minds that could be smarter than we are and that might not do what we want them to."
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
I tried not to think of what would happen to her.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
In Kyiv, which is home to some three million people, residents have begun mulling what to do if that happens again.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
He is, by his own admission, an introvert who happens to control football games for a living.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The term is less a description of any particular food than a prediction about what happens when the people optimizing a restaurant become increasingly distant from the people cooking in it.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
When that happens, companies tend to rethink their borrowing needs, which can result in a pullback in bond issuance or more issuance for shorter periods of 10 years or less, King noted.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
I wiggle the little controller thing—the mouse—but nothing happens then, either.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
On Sunday, it reported another strike, but didn’t specify when the incident happened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
What has happened to Tuvalu should serve as a lesson to others, scientists say.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
In the U.K., authorities are still trying to piece together what happened, and some U.K. officials question the level of sophistication of the planned attack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
"Nothing has happened, and there's no sign of anything happening in the near future. The contrast couldn't be greater," Sullivan said.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
She interrupts me a lot, sometimes asking me to repeat something I said, and sometimes it’s with another question aimed at clarifying how and why certain things happened.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
It’s well established that the universe is expanding, but there’s serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it’s happening.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
"There's a 10-minute flyover of the lagoon and that's about it. There's no awareness of what's happening."
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
It was also important that men recognised what was happening to women during perimenopause, she added.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
And it’s happening right before everybody retreats to the bargaining table for the negotiation that will determine the future of the sport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
There was some exercise-in-chairs class happening that he wanted no part of.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
